NEXT: Student perceptions of Wikipedia Edit-a-thons: Considering race and gender maxxbeckmann

yay Cambridge College! I got a chance to work with Rebecca and this is a great initiative.

Back - had to restart Zoom to give it permission to screen share

NEXT: Cite Unseen: Latest updates to this script that provides icon indicators for the nature and reliability of sources ~SuperHamster

Has anything about your program been written up before? Are there any links where we can learn more? (any sorts of accounts or posts somewhere?)

NEXT: All My Relations: Using Wikidata to find and correct errors on a collaborative global family tree (and on Wikidata) - Genealogy —KarenJoyce

This is awesome!

this is amazing SuperHamster

THIS IS COOL AS HECK

Thanks Rebecca for your talk, great to see you here! You should connect with some of the WM NYC folks who have been educational projects

*been doing

It also just looks cool.

Thanks Phoebe! I would love to

This is amazing! I am interested in how this works for medical sources.

Good work…. We need much more classification of sources….

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite_Unseen

Visual indicators also serve a lot to give people an idea what might be going on overall at a quick glance.

Is there an API?

Very nice work

Amazing, Kevin Payravi!

NEXT: Grand unveiling of the Wikimedia DC "2021 U.S. Wiki Science Calendar"! —Antony-22

I created the Wikitree Wikidata property in 2016!!!

@Magnus No, but all the domain categorizations are in a big JSON you are free to use. I did use Newsligner’s new Sourceror API though, which provides the RSP list in structured format (https://sourceror.org/)

(Cite Seen docs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuperHamster/CiteUnseen)

Nice!

@Kevin Payravi thanks I I am looking into using ORES to sort articles connected to a good source P4963 maybe we also could check what citations are used….

a variety of proposals to have something like this on Wikimedia: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_genealogy_project

Very cool Magnus, would love to learn more later.

For reference since someone asked me, the perennial sources list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources (shortcut is WP:RSP)

This is great, Karen Joyce - I've used WikiTree in Wikidata before but I didn't know how it worked behind the scenes.

Next up: Antony-22

WikiTree I feel WikiTree clean a lot of the Wikidata problems and that is uploaded to Wikidata ==> we get problems on this list https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Database_reports/Constraint_violations/P2949 with duplicates but I am not sure if some fix those… in Wikidata

NEXT: Demo of the latest stuff I'm working on, particularly section-watchlist and its new integration with reply-link. —Enterprisey

MAGNUS!!!! You are so instrumental to the success of WikiTree on Wikidata.

This is great - we had this idea two years ago and glad to see it xecuted

Constraint violations. Occasionally, I found the constraint warning troubling. Reporting on Discuss link takes time to resolve.

@Karen Aleš Trtnik is the hero…. He has done this sync for ore than 4 years its magic and I hope other sites will do the same…

https://wikimediadc.org/wiki/2021_Wiki_Science_Calendar_Fundraiser

Excited to get my calendar!

NEXT: Annual WCNA Group Photo (retake)

Nothing like a 16 year old bug!!!

Enterprisey is awesome

wuuuuuuut

this is rather amazing

whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

This is too easy!

oh wow

\o/

No more aligning colons!

wow nice 2x!

What are the prerequisites to make this work for someone? (What does the wiki need, what do you personally need?)

Have you thought about making this work with Flow discussions?

HOW TO ENABLE THIS!

This will be super useful for following all the on-wiki drama boards.

Kevin++

reply link - where have you been all my life!

can we get this as a gadget ??

womderfull

I wonder how hard it would be to set these up as globally-importable gadgets...

what about us with no hair?

reply-link only needs translation work, but the Foundation's upcoming DiscussionTools script is, I understand, fully localized

Welp, I was too tired to turn my camera on this time. :P

An update from the Sustainability Initiative --Gnom

NEXT: Overview of the Cochrane-Wikipedia Project —JenOttawa

I'm back post-baby.

Let me guess… lots of progress on reducing air travel.

yes but only temporarily :(

ANNOUNCEMENT: Please upload your Lightning Talk slidedesk to: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiConference_North_America_2020

:-)))

:)

Woohoo!

We need TRANS-LOCAL conferences

I hope to join in BKK in 2022

lets all sail to the conferences ;->

re: virtual meetings - we are all part of the solution RIGHT NOW as we experiment w/ how to run good virtual meetings. So give us your feedback!

#yesYesYES

damn them

terrible

Are other forms of travel more sustainable than air (e.g., rail)?

yeah, we need an endowment report, where they can discuss ESG

great work - so urgent and important - thank you!

How can we help, Lukas? And what does “screened” mean? They have a criterion, but it’s not high?

brilliant

Great stuff, thanks Lukas

why is travel reduction preferred over carbon offsets? They are relatively cheap and the end result is the same.

THanks

let's have more wikitrains in north america

Good point Gergo - would be nice to have a hybrid approach

Thank you so much to Lukas for doing this work for so long and so thanklessly

because carbon offsets aren't guaranteed, a lot of them burned in the California fires at the start of this year

Thanks for your comments, I’ll check them out and try to follow up

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Sustainability_Initiative is the meta page

NEXT: Black Catholicism wiki -- Natemup

Also side pitch: if you are interested in improving info about climate change on Wikipedia & our other projects, check out WP:PROCC on the English Wikipedia &/or talk to me or Alex Stinson

@ Gergő offsets are prone to abuse. reduction is real.

Yes, the principle must be to Keep It In The Ground.

I don't think that really answers the why question. Obviously there are a lot of fake / unreliable offsets and we'd have to be careful in choosing the right one. Just like with electricity providers or funds or anything else. Are you saying for carbon offsets that is entirely impossible?

NEXT: Wikimedia Canada : Environment and Climate Change Canada Project --Benoit Rochon

@ Gergő here is more info. but we can discuss https://www.vox.com/2020/2/27/20994118/carbon-offset-climate-change-net-zero-neutral-emissions

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Projet_ECCC,_100_ans_de_donn%C3%A9es_m%C3%A9t%C3%A9orologiques_en_acc%C3%A8s_libre/en

ooooh this is really cool - weather data

one of the kinds of data that should belong to all & is irreplaceable - you only get to measure the weather once!

NEXT: Overview of the Namespace Database project —carlinmack

agreed - weather data should be open access

The Commons Data: namespace has been used pretty extensively for COVID data too. Very useful option.

There are definitely lots of time series in Wikidata that should be moved to the Commons Data: namespace, but until phabricator.wikimedia.org/T181319 is resolved the stuff in the Data: namespace will not be queriable

(so we can't actually generate nice charts based on the Canadian weather data using query.wikidata.org at the moment...)

Why upload data to Commons, not Wikidata?

Thanks Benoit. How does one access this data? Any sandbox etc?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Data:Environment_Canada/Weather/Bagotville_A_(7060400)/Monthly/Bagotville_A_(7060400)_Monthly.tab

Tabular data in Commons is accessible to other wikis via Lua modules and templates, for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Tabular_query

next phase of the project is to make templated on Wikipedias to use those data

The WikiGap 2018 was a collabaoration with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and was inaugurated by the minister herself

templates*

Thanks Benoit! So cool

@Spencer: the data files are files, not arranged like Wikidata items. They have the extension .tab

Okay, I'm falling off the awake wagon, y'all lovely, good night and thank you to everyone making this all happen and taking the time to share your cool stuff.

to continue the discussion on the weather data projects, you can also join us on WMCA Telegram group: https://t.me/WMCADiscuss

Wow! Sharp info on talk page posts

Striking plot!

NEXT: Overview of OpenStreetMap's Mapping Racism project and how it uses Wikidata. – Minh Nguyễn

this is MEGA COOL

that's a great visualisation.

That retention chart was a great one

Tells us that - folks who joined around 2006 stayed on significantly, not so much about folks between 2010 and 2014

stupid question, sorry: but where’s Carlin’s accent from? It sounds really cool.

I 'm one of those 2006ers...

Very cool!

Aberdeen, Scotland!

More Ohio!

this is funny regime

thanks everyone! links:Github with the source code of the tool: https://github.com/carlinmack/NamespaceDatabaseLink to the 30 best plots: https://carlinmack.com/blog/p/wikipediaplots/

NEXT: Status report of Wikimedia in Outer Atmosphere— by Geraldshields11

Thanks Carlin. Would love to read those charts. Thanks for sharing.

Would love to see an extended update next year on some of these short presentations.

Agreed!

Is there a legend for the colors of the dots?

Awesome job Minh

Minh thank you! Will you share links?

👏🗺

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/United_States/Racism

🚀🌌

boom!

Great talk Minh!

whoa there it goes

and yes, great talk Minh, thank you!

Is that a pottery barn?

This community is sooo cool !

that's amazing

Flypedia

A space station person edited a NASA wiki from space this fall. I can find the tweet about it.

My quality standard for writing on Wikipedia has ALWAYS BEEN that it should deserve to be shot into space to be discovered by the alien overlords. Even if it’s about dead 1990s operating systems and video games.

what a message

https://twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/1196441020457766913

or dream small, depending on your tesla

Overview of some outstanding user scripts that everyone should install. (Rejected title: "The best scripts I didn't make".) (Put this talk after some other talks, so I don't give two in a row; feel free to cut this one if time is an issue, I can just speak real fast for one slot.) Enterprisey

Woo hoo! Thank you @Kevin Leeson

Can we pick who is in the roadster that is launched into space?

Does that Roadster have a QID yet?

All of us! They should launch today’s group photo.

To drive a Roadster that small, it would have to be someone with very tiny hands

Natemup: are you here to present on “Black Catholicism”?

this is very helpful -thanks!

SHISHIR DUA: Are you here, and if so, what is the topic of your Lightning Talk?

Can you post link on Chat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Enterprisey/sandbox5

🐱🐱🐱

HotCat!

thank you everyone, i must leave for now. See all of you soon.

you can enable the ones that are "gadgets" by name in Preferences

Thank You Gerald, that was such a nice ending note

and so cool

I love Rater!!

notepad?!?????

I <3 hotcat

HotCat changed my Commons life.

I love HotCat!

Would appreciate the link to access all of this, missed the first part

yay hotcat

notepad has been almost kept a secret, it's used so infrequently, and it is BEAUTIFUL - everyone should get it

you get private notes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Enterprisey/sandbox5

@Akiko I. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Enterprisey/sandbox5

How is there a notepad? That's amazing.

Pharos: I know!

👏 👏 👏

@Richard it users mw.user.options which is a private space per user scripts can access stored with your preferences

Private notes, cool, is there a way to save drafts? To attach a sandbox to a real article, so that I can draft it for a while without losing it to a browser crash until I decide to publish it? And delete the draft when I’m done.

note that user options get included into every pageview. So if you overuse them, the wiki might get a little slower for you.

NEXT: Terrible interface. -Kevin Li

GOOD POINT

there should be a smile on this page

you tell 'em kevin

"Terrible interface for blocked users" - Kevin

Perhaps a laughing emoji?

Great point!!

great idea

“You have been blocked! 😂"

So cool!

Good idea!

A side of Wikipedia most of us have (hopefully) never seen. Thanks for letting us know about this blind spot!

@Kevin Payrahi mwa ha ha

Great idea~

The "Most people who see this message" makes sense for IP ranges, but not sure whether it applies to user account blocks

This is great Kev

nice edit, Kevin P!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:L235

Great improvement to onboard new editors who make a mistake!

🐕

Or were caught in someone else's mistake

It happened to me being blocked twice uploading my own images on my phone.

Great job everyone

great talks!

great talks, everyone

8pm Eastern is closing reception in wonder lounge lounge.wcna.wiki

This is my first WikiConference North America. Thanks so much for the ideas and rich content shared during this conference.

What will the reception involve?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_sockpuppets_of_Pharos

what were the triangle-like plots in @carlinmack's slides? Are those normal scatter plots with color? Would really like to steal that for other wikis

Latkes

Folks who spoke today: it’d be great if you could upload your slides, or if like me you were unprepared and just had a bunch of tabs open, if you could share a link somewhere on the WCNA Meta pages so people can catch up later.

@gergo Figure 38 here https://carlinmack.com/blog/p/wikipediaplots/

can still sign up for open space

Thanks all, see you tomorrow

open space slots still open

Thanks to everyone, that was fun.

they are inspired from OSM plots from their conference in 2018, can share them too later

Thanks, everybody! Great talks today!

https://lounge.wcna.wiki

Thank you for hosting this!

@gergo I can share code too, it's all open source